1. High Times
2. Somewhere Different
3. It’s Not The Same Without You
4. Chromatic Jew
5. Take Pity on the Beast
6. Lying Next to You
7. Agar Rag
8. Cul De Sac
9. Spoken Like a Man
10. Say Goodbye to What’s Left
11. Into the Blue
12. Say Goodnight

When you buy the physical CD, the packaging opens up to make a paper sculpture.

You can hear clips from every song at the iTunes store. And, of course, you can buy a physical copy here at our shop on DeborahConway.com

Listen to two songs from Half Man Half Woman

Lying Next to You

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It’s Not The Same Without You

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The Making of Half Man Half Woman: Part 8: Take Pity on the Beast

Also: Part One – How is this album different to Summertown?

Part Two – Half Man Half Woman: Production

Part Three – Writing Half Man Half Woman

Part Four – Into the Blue

Part Five – Judaism and Half Man Half Woman

Part Six – Instruments used on Half Man Half Woman

Part Seven – Influences

1. Stay On Track
2. Accidents Happen In The Home
3. Any Fool
4. Try To Save Your Song
5. Something’s Right
6. Sunday Morning
7. One Chance
8. Sleepwalker
9. I Love You But
10. It Doesn’t Work That Way
11. Heartache
12. Here And Now

Musicians: Deborah Conway, Willy Zygier, Gerry Hale, James Black, Shannon Birchall
Additional musicians: Dave Williams, Toni Collette, Paul Kelly, Kim Wheeler, Michael Barker.
Produced by Willy Zygier and Deborah Conway. Co-produced by Gerry Hale.

Something’s Right, video

Something’s Right

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Heartache

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Summertown

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Australia $32 (price includes postage) International $37 (price includes postage)

About Summertown

The last 3 albums had revolved around making music out of essentially non-musical components, (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but when it came time to do it again, I don’t know – I guess we had both gotten tired of torturing electric guitars and using atonal samples. Those sounds seemed everywhere.

We started talking about songs we liked from a pre-electronic era; artists like Simon and Garfunkle, The Mammas and the Pappas, Jimmy Webb, James Taylor & Carole King all came up in our conversations along with many others. We didn’t want to recreate them (as if we could) but we wanted to evoke that spirit, that approach to song-craft; beautifully realised verses, choruses and bridges that seem to have always belonged together even before they came into being. Also a certain gentleness and warmth that we hadn’t explored seemed like the path that was beckoning. We’ve been angst, brittle, pissed off and depressed, let’s give peace a chance.

During the writing period for this album, I broke my arm. I got some good material out of it but it severely cramped my guitar playing and confined Willy to rhythm only. This had its own knock-on effects for Gerry Hale (mandolin, cittern, fiddle, slide, Dobro, charango etc) and James Black (piano & organ) and the amount and intricacy of the various parts on the record. In the end maybe it was a bonus, forcing us to comply with our blueprint to simplify.

We expressly wanted to make an acoustic record and upright bass was the obvious route to take. Shannon Birchall (moonlighting from The John Butler Trio) brought a big, fat, warm, bottom end to the project, while Michael Barker (also from JBT) on percussion and Dave Williams (from Augie March) on drums put the engine into it.

With the vocal talents of Paul Kelly, singing a duet on “It Doesn’t Work That Way” – an examination of gender delineations as filtered through an IKEA experience; and Toni Collette trilling on Sunday Morning in the perfect counterpoint of girly vocals, we found two more outstanding contributors to Summertown.

In some ways Summertown sounds like my most mature record to date, ironic given the circumstances it was recorded in. My parents announced they were going on a cruise for a couple of months, leaving an empty house. I knew the answer would have been ‘no’ if I’d asked, but the thing is nature abhors a vacuum. They departed at 12.30 on October 6th – at 1.30 we had started loading in a van full of gear and set up a studio in their lounge and dining rooms. It’s unlikely at this point in life to get the kind of frisson usually reserved for 14 year olds deliberately disobeying their parents, but I have to say it was a sweet feeling and the vitality of youth flowed in the blood of all the tracks we subsequently put down.

- Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier

Buy a signed copy from the Deborah Conway Shop

This album contains tracks from all Deborah Conway albums and was released on July 17th, 2002.

This album is also available with different artwork under the name The Definitive Deborah Conway for reasons that make perfect sense to the record company.

1. Man Overboard
2. It’s Only The Beginning
3. Release Me
4. White Roses
5. Alive and Brilliant
6. Today I Am a Daisy
7. She Prefers Fire
8. 3 Love
9. Only The Bones (will show)
10. All Of The Above
11. Here In My Arms
12. Radio Loves This
13. Never Far Away
14. Exquiste Stereo
15. Walking After Midnight
16. Sweet Dreams
17. Everybody Wants To Touch Me
18. It’s Only The Beginning (Show Us Your Hits Mix)

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Buy a signed copy from the Deborah Conway Shop

1. I Fall to Pieces
2. Back in Baby’s Arms
3. Crazy
4. Sweet Dreams (of You)
5. Lovesick Blues
6. Eyes of a Child
7. So Wrong
8. Your Cheating Heart
9. Walking After Midnight
10. She’s Got You

This album was made while Deborah was in the stage show of Always…Patsy Cline. It is not the recording from the show itself but rather some traditional and some new takes on Patsy Cline songs.

The album was sold at the shows of Always…Patsy Cline and is available in the Deborah Conway Shop
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photo: Pierre Baroni

Radio Loves This

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Never Far Away

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1. All Of The Above
2. Only The Bones (Will Show)
3. Everything You Want It To Be
4. Here In My Arms
5. 2001 Ultrasound
6. Feathers In My Mouth
7. The Way You Look Tonight
8. It’s A Girl Thing
9. It’s Only A Dream
10. Bag Of Sweets

Buy

My Third Husband

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Listen

Here in My Arms

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Bag of Sweets

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In October 1997 Deborah released her long awaited third solo album. Called My Third Husband she descibes it as a “dark, throbbing, hypnotic and dreamy kind of a record. A late night spin.” The first single was a new recording of the Ultrasound song called Only the Bones (Will Show). The second single, 2001 Ultrasound, was released early January 1998. The third single, It’s a Girl Thing was released to radio only but can be found in second hand stores if you’re super keen.

• writers – Conway/Zygier
• publishers – EMI/Polygram
• producer – Dave Anderson
• engineer – Jock Loveland
• mix assistants – Nick and Rafi
• mastering – Ian Cooper
• recording studios – RAK, Red Bus and West Heath, London
• mix studio – Swanyard, London
• programming, keyboards, bass on Everything You Want it to Be – Dave Anderson
• vocals – Deborah Conway
• programming – Andy Cox
• drums – Roy Dodds
• bass – Martain Swain
• arrangements, programming, guitars, synthesisers, samplers and vocals – Willy Zygier
• photos – Polly Borland
• sleeve labor Pierre Baroni@Mushroom Art

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1. One
2. 3 love
3. Anyone who had a heart
4. Four
5. Only the bones
6. Six
7. Descendo
8. City of women
9. Born once
10. Ten
11. Evil homer
12. Twelve
13. By then dead
14. Petrol head
15. Fifteen

• Ultrasound are : Deborah Conway, Paul Hester, Bill McDonald and Willy Zygier.
• Engineered and mixed by Laurence Maddy
• Illustrations by Paul Hester
• Photography by Mardi Sommerfield
• Design by Debbie Ladd/Mushroom Art
• All tracks Ultrasound except track three Bacharach/David
• Notes: Recorded in one week, mixed in one week.

From inside the Ultrasound Cover.

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photo: Pierre Baroni ©

1. Today I am a Daisy (album version)
2. Alive and Brilliant (album version)
3. Man Overboard (live)
4. Goldfinger (live)
5. Today I am a Daisy (live)

Tracks 1, 2, and 5 written by Conway/Zygier,
3 by Conway/Bray/Carter/Philip,
4 by Barry/Bricusse/Newley.

1 and 2 produced by Jim Rondinelli and Zygier.

Notes

• The second release, in a slimline CD jewel case.
• Tracks 3, 4, and 5 recorded Feb 21 1994 at The Star Club, Adelaide.
• Photography and Design by Pierre Baroni/mushroomArt

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photo: Pierre Baroni ©

• This recording is a compilation of two Athenaeum shows in Melbourne on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of May 1994.
• Released as a double CD pack with Bitch Epic.
• Produced by William J Zygier
• Photographic troublemaking and design – Pierre Baroni

Track	Song Title	Written by
1.	Buried treasure	Conway
2.	Madame Butterfly is in trouble	Conway
3.	Parabasis	Conway/Zygier
4.	Will you miss me when you’re sober	Conway
5.	White roses	Conway/Bray
6.	Get stripped	Zygier
7.	String of pearls	Conway
8.	Today I am a daisy	Conway/Zygier

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1. Alive and brilliant
2. I’m not satisifed(chords)
3. Consider this
4. She prefers fire
5. Today I’m a daisy
6. Now that we’re apart (Zygier)
7. World of love
8. Holes in the road
9. One more time (Conway)
10. Only girl (Zygier)
11. Madame butterfly is in trouble (Conway)
12. DCN #348 (Conway)

• All lyrics – Deborah Conway.
• All music Conway/Zygier except where specified
• Produced by Jim Rondinelli and William J Zygier
• Photography : Montalbetti/Campbell

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	Song Title	Written by	Produced by
1.	Release me	Conway/Scott Culter	Richard Pleasance
2.	It’s only the beginning	Conway/Scott Culter	Richard Pleasance
3.	Under my skin	Conway/Scott Culter/Dorland Bray	Joe Hardy
4.	Buried Treasure	Conway	Joe Hardy
5.	Will you miss me when you’re sober	Conway	Richard Pleasance
6.	White roses	Conway/Dorland Bray	Richard Pleasance
7.	For all the wrong reasons	Conway	Joe Hardy
8.	Someday	Conway/Dorland Bray and Paul Kelly	Joe Hardy
9.	King of Jordon	Conway/Richard Pleasance	Richard Pleasance
10.	Deborah Conway’s nightmare #347	Conway	Michael den Elzen
11.	String of Pearls	Conway	Richard Pleasance
12.	Last to Know	Conway/Paul Kelly	Joe Hardy

• First release was in a foldout Digipak, later releases in standard CD case.
• Portrait photos – Polly Borland
• Bicycle photo – Ross Hipwell
• Pearl photos – Pierre Baroni
• Art Direction and design -Pierre Baroni/Mushroom Art

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